Holidays
Cricket
Starts and Ends with the Same Letter
2020
Candy
200

In 2017 Los Angeles joined other cities in replacing this holiday with Indigenous Peoples Day

What is Columbus Day?

200

How many yards are there between each set of stumps in cricket?

What is 22 yards?

200

A common practice on a social media site.

What is a tweet?

200

For the four-week period ending April 11, sales of this baking product jumped 410% year over year, causing nationwide shortages.

What is yeast?

200

These animal-shaped sugar covered marshmallows are popular around Easter time.

What are peeps?

400

Pearl Harbor Day is observed on this date.

What is December 7th?

400

Who were the first two teams to compete in an international cricket match?

What is Australia and England?

400

A cutting remark or a sharp point perhaps on a fishhook.

What is a barb?

400

Name of a popular Netflix show where a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

What is the Queen's Gambit?

400

This classic lollipop brand was invented in 1924 and are now are often used as a special treat for customers when leaving a restaurant.

What are Dum Dums?

600

A 1952 bill designated September 17 as Citizenship Day to coincide with the 1787 signing of this.

What is the Constitution?

600

Which country unexpectedly won the cricket World Cup in 1996?

What is Sri Lanka?

600

It's the only noble gas on the periodic table to fit the category.

What is neon?

600

In August, Forbes reported this man had a net worth exceeding $200 billion.

Who is Jeff Bezos?

600

These gum-drop shaped multi colored candies are distributed by the tootsie roll company.

What are Dots?

800

It became an official French holiday in 1880 91 years after the event that inspired it.

What is Bastille Day?

800

What name is given to the score 111 in cricket?

What is a Nelson?

800

This scientist changed the world with single fruit.

Who is (Isaac) Newton? 

800

What is Joe Biden's age?

What is 78?

800

The old jingle for this candy has this line in it: The world looks mighty good to me cause ______ are all I see.

What are tootsie rolls?

1000

Presidents' Day honors these two presidents in particular who were both born in February.

Who is George Washington and Abraham Lincoln?

1000

Excluding the ball (which has a core made from cork), how many pieces of wooden equipment are necessary for a game of cricket?

What is 12?

1000

Edible fruit matter, or lurid fiction.

What is pulp?

1000

This artist made history in 2020 as the youngest winner of the Grammys’ four main categories.

Who is Billie Eilish?

1000

This flavor changing candy appears in Willie Wonka's chocolate factory in the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

What is an everlasting gobstopper?